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“You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope.”
― Eclipse
― Eclipse
“Fame is no sure test of merit.”
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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
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“Many centuries after the Buddha, the Chinese Chan (Zen) patriarch Yunmen (c. 860–949) was asked: “What are the teachings of an entire lifetime?” Yunmen replied: “An appropriate statement.”6 For Yunmen, what counts is whether your words and deeds are an appropriate response to the situation at hand, not whether they accord with an abstract truth.”
― After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age
― After Buddhism: Rethinking the Dharma for a Secular Age
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